Berlin

Date

21 July 1944

Target

Berlin, Germany

Force dispatched

58 aircraft

Sortie details (which aircraft from which squadron, which crew flew, the outcome) will populate this page once the TNA AIR 27 squadron-diary importer arrives.

The fallen

130 airmen in this archive died on 21 July 1944 or the day that followed. For a raid of this kind these are overwhelmingly the night's losses, though a death-date match is not by itself proof an individual flew this operation.

• Flight Sergeant James Hedley Abraham (22)
• Sergeant Christopher Maurice Ashford (23)
• Pilot Officer Herbert Frank Axford (28)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Alfred Barlow (19)
• Flying Officer David Arnold Barlow (20)
• Flight Sergeant David Bernard Barry (22)
• Sergeant Ronald John Morton Batty
• Flying Officer William Alexander Bell (26)
• Flight Sergeant Philip William Benson (32)
• Flying Officer Harold Francis Sargent Best (22)
• Flying Officer Keith Cedric Binnie (23)
• Flying Officer Hugo Hysert Borchardt (30)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Elroy Boyle (26)
• Pilot Officer Paul Herman Brittain (19)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Joseph Britts
• Flying Officer David Oscar Brown
• Flying Officer Henry John Burtt (31)
• Flight Lieutenant John Philip Sargent Calder (29)
• Flying Officer Horace Callow (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Joseph Chigwidden (33)
• Flying Officer Colin Mervyn Clarey (30)
• Lieutenant Cooney
• Pilot Officer Bernard Horace Cooper (19)
• Flying Officer Brian Patrick Cosgriff (22)

See all 130 who died on 21 July →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →